TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO V. M. MOLOTOV FOR THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

Dictated:Dictated by phone on July 25, 1921Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 53.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeMolotov:

Re:the draft agreement concerning the Dashnaks which
Joffe initialled in
Riga.[1]I quite agree with Chicherin’s
arguments and propose that the agreement should be
resolutely and immediately rejected. I propose the immediate
passage by phone of this resolution: “The draft agreement
signed by Joffe and other comrades in Riga concerning
the Dashnaks is hereby resolutely and immediately
rejected.”

Ibelieve Chicherin is absolutely right when he says
that such an agreement is not only wrong, but dangerous.

[1]Areference to the draft agreement with the nationalist Armenian
Dashnaktsutyun party of July 14, 1921, which provided for theintegration with Soviet Armenia of Turkish territory inhabited
by Armenians and the establishment of an “independent”
Armenia. On July 26, the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee rejected this draft agreement.